Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.Helen Keller
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
— WILLIAM SAROYAN
American novelist and playwright · 1908 – 1981
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright and short-story writer of Armenian descent, known for The Time of Your Life and the novel The Human Comedy. His warm stories of ordinary people in Fresno, California, won him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which he declined.
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